More than a Refresh is a new podcast dedicated to learning about data and the people behind it through lively conversation, diverse topics, and engaging guest speakers. We explore professional trends within the ecosystem including trouble spots, privacy, equity, democratization, and future directions. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never met
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5.0(9 reviews)
112 episodes
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More than a Refresh is a new podcast dedicated to learning about data and the people behind it through lively conversation, diverse topics, and engaging guest speakers. We explore professional trends within the ecosystem including trouble spots, privacy, equity, democratization, and future directions. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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1/1/1970
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Recent Episodes
July 30, 2026
MTAR T3D Sessions: Why Paying More Doesn't Buy a Better Database
<p>For decades, enterprise software has carried an assumption: if it costs more, it must be better. PostgreSQL challenges that idea.</p><p>In this Postgres Love Letter episode, Brian and JD reflect on what first drew them to PostgreSQL and why their appreciation for it has only grown over the years. What begins as a conversation about open source quickly becomes a broader look at performance, reliability, long-term cost, and the misconceptions that still surround enterprise databases.</p><p>From organizations saving millions by moving away from proprietary databases to cloud providers building services on PostgreSQL, this conversation explores why more businesses are rethinking what they actually need from a database. Choosing PostgreSQL isn't just about spending less. It's about questioning the assumption that enterprise software has to be expensive to be reliable, capable, or ready for production.</p><p>Whether you're evaluating a new application, planning a migration, or simply challenging long-held assumptions about enterprise databases, this episode offers a practical perspective on why PostgreSQL continues to earn the trust of organizations of every size.</p>
July 23, 2026
MTAR T3D Sessions: The Future of AI Isn't More Data Centers
<p>Does AI really need another massive data center? Or have we overlooked the computing power that's already sitting idle on millions of devices?</p><p>In this episode, JD is joined by Reza Rassool, Chair and CEO of Kwaai, a nonprofit AI lab building open source AI infrastructure around a different idea: instead of concentrating AI in a handful of massive facilities, why not build a distributed network that makes use of the hardware people already own?</p><p>That question leads into a broader conversation about sustainability, privacy, distributed computing, and the future of AI infrastructure. Reza explains how technologies like homomorphic encryption could make distributed AI practical without sacrificing privacy, while JD brings an engineering perspective on data centers, energy use, and what it would actually take to make this model work at scale.</p><p>Whether or not this becomes the future of AI, it's a conversation that challenges one of the industry's biggest assumptions.</p>
July 21, 2026
MTAR T3D Sessions: Faster Schema Changes, Slower Queries
<p>Faster schema changes sound like an obvious improvement. But as this conversation shows, making one database operation faster can introduce performance problems that are much harder to spot.</p><p>In this Postgres Pet Peeves episode, Brian shares a real production case where adding a column with a default value led to unexpectedly slow queries. JD and Brian explore why PostgreSQL behaves this way, how the optimization introduced in PostgreSQL 11 changes what is actually written to disk, and why that can leave the query planner working with incomplete information until the table is eventually rewritten.</p><p>The conversation goes beyond a single edge case. It highlights an engineering reality that applies well beyond PostgreSQL: every optimization has trade-offs, and understanding those trade-offs is often the difference between a smooth deployment and days spent chasing an unexpected performance issue.</p><p>Whether you manage production PostgreSQL systems, build migration workflows, or simply enjoy understanding how PostgreSQL works under the hood, this episode offers a practical look at a subtle behavior that can have a surprising impact in the real world.</p>
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